C13: from Old French seculer, from Late Latin saeculāris temporal, from Latin: concerning an age, from saeculum an age

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She was pushing her husband to leave the church and find secular employment. Christianity Today (2000)What should religion do in a secular age? Times, Sunday Times (2013)The secular clergy experienced the least change.Shubert, Adrian A Social History of Modern Spain (1991)We were left pondering how to sparkactivism in a largely secular country. Times, Sunday Times (2010)As societies become richer they become more secular. Times, Sunday Times (2016)He is a bridge between the secular and religious. Times, Sunday Times (2011)This is not an age of secular ideologies. Times, Sunday Times (2014)The realtask is to recycleelements of religion for secular use. The Times Literary Supplement (2012)He was not a saint, secular or otherwise. Times, Sunday Times (2012)What interests their writers is the existential, amoral emptiness in the heart of modern secular man. Times, Sunday Times (2016)